How to Redirect a Page in WordPress

In this tutorial I am going to show you:

1. How to Redirect a Page or Pages in WordPress
2. How to Redirect 404 Pages in WordPress
3. How to Redirect Home Page / Index Page in WordPress
4. How to Redirect Login Page in WordPress
5. How to Redirect Page to Category in WordPress

Prerequisite Component:

You need to have Google Webmaster tool enabled for your website. I’m assuming you have successfully claimed and verified your website in Google Webmaster tool (Search Console). Submitted your website’s sitemap.xml in webmaster tool. And your robots.txt file is accepting Googlebots.

How to Find URL Errors (404/Not Found) for My Site:

First login to your Google Webmaster tool. If you have multiple websites then you will see the list of all your websites. If you have only one website claimed and verified in Google Webmaster Tool then you will see that site information. In my case, I get this list of my websites when I log onto my search console.

Now click on the site link for what you want to find out the 404 or not found pages. You will see something like the following image:

You can click on “Crawl Errors” underneath the Current Status or you can click on the “Crawl” menu underneath Google Index menu. If you click on “Crawl” menu underneath Google Index menu then it show different options, please make sure you click on Crawl Errors. There are three tabs you will see – Desktop, Smart Phone and Feature Phone. Under these three tabs there are four tabs – Soft 404, Access Denied, Not Found, and other. You need to concentrate on Soft 404 and Not found urls.

So you have identified 404 pages/urls for your website. Great! Now we need to move on to redirection part.

You can set redirection for your wordpress site and its pages in many ways. You could use .htaccess file or you can use redirection plugin in wordpress like Simple 301 redirects, Quick Redirects or premium Yoast SEO plugin! I also use Yoast SEO plugin and the latest version of this great plugin has a new section called “Search Console”.

If you click on “Search Console” then it will show you how many soft 404 and not found URLs you have for your website.

If you mouse over to a link you will see three options – create redirect, view and mark as fixed. Now if you click on “click redirect” a pop up window will open and you will see the following message if you are a Free user like me for Yoast SEO plugin.

I know it’s pathetic but I also understand that they have to find a way for their living! Hence I don’t want to blame them as there are still some great, free redirection plugin available for WordPress sites.

One of the Best WordPress Redirection Plugin?

In my personal opinion and from users reviews and ratings, I can certainly say that SEO Redirection Plugin by Fakhri Alsadi is great! It’s 100% true what they said about this plugin on the plugin homepage:

By this plugin you can build redirection easily for your site, you can set up all types of redirection including 301, 302 or 307 redirect, you can also monitor 404 error pages and redirect them in one mouse click, we concentrated on simplicity in this plugin to meet all user levels.

I am going to show you how to redirect a page, 404 pages, redirect home page/index page, redirect login page, and how to redirect page to category in WordPress with this plugin. First, you need install and activate this plugin. You can see installation guide here.

A. How to Redirect a Page in WordPress

First login to your WordPress admin panel and then mouse over/click on settings. After that click on “SEO Redirection“. You will see something like this:

In the first “Page” field, put the old URL and in the second “Page” field put the redirect URL. Make sure it’s 301 (SEO), that’s permanent redirection. After that, click on “Add New”. And you are done! You have successfully made a redirect for one of your pages. Now if you have multiple pages to redirect, you need to repeat this process for multiple times.

B. How to Redirect 404 Pages in WordPress

As you have a list of not found and soft 404 pages either from Yoast or Webmaster tool, you can easily fix the errors. You could follow the steps mentioned in previous paragraph to fix those soft 404 pages. But there might be more 404 URLs that need to be fixed. To find out further 404 URLs, click on “404 Error Links” in SEO Redirection plugin. You might see something like this:

Now you can either click on green arrow under “Redirect” column for each link or you can copy the 404 link and manually fix it through “Custom Redirects” option.

C. How to Redirect Home Page / Index Page in WordPress

It’s easy and I think you have got the idea how to do it already! Follow what I described in Step A and set like following:

Replace yourdomain.com with your own domain and check the extension of your site. That might be index.html, index.htm, index.php or just the domain itself (http://www.yourdomain.com/)!

So, in the first “Page” field, put the Home Page / Index Page URL and in the second “Page” field put the redirect URL. Make sure it’s 301 (SEO), that’s permanent redirection. After that, click on “Add New”. And you are done! You have successfully redirected Home Page / Index Page!

D. How to Redirect Login Page in WordPress

Replace yourdomain.com with your own domain.

In the first “Page” field, put the wp-login.php at the end of your domain and in the second “Page” field replace “preferredURL” with the redirect URL of the new login page. After that, click on “Add New”. And you are done! You have successfully redirected login page!

E. How to Redirect Page to Category in WordPress

Very simple. You need to identify the page and the category first. For example,  if I like to redirect this URL: http://www.seo-service-provider.org/blog/seo-blog/benefits-of-https-over-http/ into this category: http://www.seo-service-provider.org/blog/seo-blog/ then I need to assign the page and category URL like the following in SEO Redirection plugin.

So you have learn how to redirect a page or pages in WordPress, how to redirect 404 pages in WordPress, how to redirect home page/index page in WordPress, how to redirect login page in WordPress and how to redirect page to category in WordPress.

Hope you find this tutorial very helpful. If you have any query or questions about given information on this topic please feel free to reach us through comments!

About Ekhlas Uddin Jewel

Ekhlas Uddin Jewel is Google Adwords certified individual & SEO, SEM, SMM specialist from Bangladesh. He is the founder of SEO-Service-Provider.Org. For large SEO/Adwords project(s), please feel free to contact him.

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